tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-76832939672483090912024-02-20T18:21:50.964+00:00Holidays In WalesDiscussion of holidays in Wales from an expert team involved in the local tourist industry.Holidays in Wales - Quality Cottageshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10098611088595563057noreply@blogger.comBlogger351125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7683293967248309091.post-86845284227815799092011-04-13T11:51:00.000+01:002011-04-13T11:51:26.578+01:00Mix n' Match Quality Cottages with Surfing Beaches<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEglrEjO2s7davHEvi4yzbSyzV-CI1SI4MFVq8elGKEZzVgeekUaEM7axB992NdY4Kjf2j5O0Pyh1njiDXcntQ0ZqeXXAZRwX0D-yJ64Eo6F2bxqRPCzGER1fKojoYDNyJOCB3dazltJVuug/s1600/surf%255B1%255D%255B2%255D.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" i8="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEglrEjO2s7davHEvi4yzbSyzV-CI1SI4MFVq8elGKEZzVgeekUaEM7axB992NdY4Kjf2j5O0Pyh1njiDXcntQ0ZqeXXAZRwX0D-yJ64Eo6F2bxqRPCzGER1fKojoYDNyJOCB3dazltJVuug/s1600/surf%255B1%255D%255B2%255D.jpg" /></a></div><span style="color: blue; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Wales has a coastline of roughly 1680 miles including Anglesey and Holyhead and so it is not surprising that we have more than our fair share of wonderful surfing beaches. Why not mix n match <a href="http://www.qualitycottages.co.uk/">Quality Cottages</a> with your favourite surfing beaches for an ideal holiday. </span><br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Type the name of your favourite surfing beach into the text search box on <a href="http://www.qualitycottages.co.uk/">http://www.qualitycottages.co.uk/</a> and see what comes up. </span><br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Freshwater West – voted 1 of the top 10 in the UK by the Guardian </span><br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Porth Neigwl – voted 1 of the top 10 in the UK by the Guardian </span><br />
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</div>Holidays in Wales - Quality Cottageshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10098611088595563057noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7683293967248309091.post-83293787503975286182011-04-13T11:23:00.000+01:002011-04-13T11:23:14.206+01:00The Biggest Surfing Event in Wales 22nd - 25th April 2011<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj6kK2RiGrg25ipruxnZQDSYLjIQfOczOEUDZSffADT31c5UOSCAg2q_NOVZARWf1QaPONjsTGW_3LflEkudsgLIcUSlYvzn0JdcTnFfdSxBRo4dS_iMQzXP3NpQK260Steqf_NwH4zLNHn/s1600/welsh2011poster%255B1%255D.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="282" i8="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj6kK2RiGrg25ipruxnZQDSYLjIQfOczOEUDZSffADT31c5UOSCAg2q_NOVZARWf1QaPONjsTGW_3LflEkudsgLIcUSlYvzn0JdcTnFfdSxBRo4dS_iMQzXP3NpQK260Steqf_NwH4zLNHn/s400/welsh2011poster%255B1%255D.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>Notice posted by the Welsh Surfing Federation</strong></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><span style="color: blue; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Organisers will look to run the event over the Saturday, Sunday, Monday but may utilise the bank holiday Friday should conditions dictate. The event which showcases Wales best surfing talent in a variety of disciplines and age categories is the biggest surfing event in Wales and thanks once again to Quiksilver, promises to be even better than last year.</span><br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Current Open Champion Adam Jenkins will be looking to defend his crown from a rejuvenated and fully fit Lloyd Cole who was unable to defend his title last year due to injury. The Swansea duo won’t find it easy though as they face an in form and on a hat-trick George Schofield, who recently took both Elusive Welsh Open and Tsunami Cup titles. </span><br />
<span style="color: blue; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In the Women’s Beth Mason is also on hat-trick as she looks to fend off the challenge from local girl Jo Dennison and close friend Gwen Spurlock. </span><br />
<span style="color: blue; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The Quiksilver Welsh Nationals have been blessed over the last few years with excellent conditions and good weather, organisers will be hoping the good luck remains unchanged and that Fresh West in <a href="http://www.qualitycottages.co.uk/tenby_holiday_cottages.php"><strong>Pembrokeshire</strong></a> serves up some great waves.</span><br />
<span style="color: blue; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">With the added bonus of a possible four days of competition available, organisers will be able to make to most of what ever mother nature provides. As always our champions skills and fitness will be tested to the max.</span><br />
<span style="color: blue; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">On behalf of the WSF we look forward to seeing you at the event and wish all the very best of luck, entry forms are available through the WSF website and should be received no later than Tuesday 19th April. </span><br />
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</div>Holidays in Wales - Quality Cottageshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10098611088595563057noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7683293967248309091.post-86546916596569303862011-04-12T16:37:00.000+01:002011-04-12T16:37:34.147+01:00Cultural Capers at the Laugharne Weekend 15th - 17th April 2011<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjp_Plkew8Bjqvff5kDS5V9DquwIQxjqSZyc40HfeFTNerk8eXC6GzqGJZiWC1I9YYiaeB2DL_TM2mRD9CcWVDh0YmZN5sU0BZkwpIESd3JLIVwdaZPsTOFOu6mXSIXaJoz1JBvbyKtkd8X/s1600/dylanthombths%255B1%255D.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="216" r6="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjp_Plkew8Bjqvff5kDS5V9DquwIQxjqSZyc40HfeFTNerk8eXC6GzqGJZiWC1I9YYiaeB2DL_TM2mRD9CcWVDh0YmZN5sU0BZkwpIESd3JLIVwdaZPsTOFOu6mXSIXaJoz1JBvbyKtkd8X/s320/dylanthombths%255B1%255D.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Literature, music, poetry and cultural capers will be taking place at the Laugharne Weekend 15th - 17th April 2011</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Kate Quill of The Times recommends Laugharne for a great British weekend. She suggests you listen to a recording of Richard Burton reading Under Milk Wood on route to appreciate fully the spirit of West Wales where Dylan Thomas lived and wrote.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.qualitycottages.co.uk/areafrommap.php?area=P">Carmarthenshire</a> inspired Thomas all his life and the town of Laugharne was where he wrote some of his best work.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Laugharne has no Dylan themed tea shops or cheap souvenir shops spoiling its fine Georgian streets. It is populated by cheerful people who greet you warmly like neighbours. Clearly tourism hasn’t made them cynical.</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">His ‘seashaken house built on a breakneck of rocks’ is now a museum dedicated to the life and work of Dylan Thomas. Visit The Boathouse alongside the beautiful ‘heron priested shores’ of the Taf Estuary. Enjoy the snug homely place, have a cup of tea and a piece of Bara Brith (fruit cake) and peep into Dylan’s shed, a charming untidy writing den, preserved just as he left it in 1953.</span><br />
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</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Laugharne has other attractions to offer beside Dylan Thomas. Take a stroll alongside the river, visit the castle, browse the handful of interesting shops, eat and drink to your hearts content.</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Why not make it more than a weekend and explore the superb surrounding Carmarthenshire coast and countryside .</span><br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi2Nghrg0BSU86Q25ERzZhRgxO5E7pkY9ok4__l8zvDu4HSfjVdc-y_93GMi_1mXcQHPpL1k0DGsVE2UjvzFQmsbT8ONBan_N3VJE5Z9C7avqpHSjJaUul-G1vT1kJuIKGo-giiiq5A5tGJ/s1600/digital-photography-1%255B1%255D.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="258" r6="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi2Nghrg0BSU86Q25ERzZhRgxO5E7pkY9ok4__l8zvDu4HSfjVdc-y_93GMi_1mXcQHPpL1k0DGsVE2UjvzFQmsbT8ONBan_N3VJE5Z9C7avqpHSjJaUul-G1vT1kJuIKGo-giiiq5A5tGJ/s320/digital-photography-1%255B1%255D.jpg" width="320" /></a></div>Once a new property has been taken on it must be photographed for advertising on the web and in the brochure. The interior and exterior must be recorded as well as the surrounding locality. </div><br />
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<div>Photography is a weather reliant pursuit. Recently it was necessary for two members of the procurement team to spend two whole days achieving the quality property shots necessary. A third member of staff attempted and aborted four visits to the locality before achieving the necessary pictures of the local area on the fifth visit.</div><br />
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<div>A total of seven visits finally resulted in the high quality material deemed essential for an honest and complete representation of the property.</div><br />
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<div><a href="http://www.qualitycottages.co.uk/">Quality Cottages </a>will always go that extra mile to maintain its high standards of service to all of its clients, owners and guests.</div></div>Holidays in Wales - Quality Cottageshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10098611088595563057noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7683293967248309091.post-2571990511302341312011-04-07T13:26:00.000+01:002011-04-07T13:26:25.437+01:00The Lost Garden of Pembrokeshire......<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZPaVpbd4t6oAyhREOibYfcItWx7m3VLes0VlVb1yAZpgUWmOUG6fsLGXTbaMegW2g_SHQMo7xagL-A_JoIWR9BLD_zRsTzayzW7ivlAceHO2lVSzW-5F59q8eRSgWxCo-vpofnnHCpV4x/s1600/pentyparc1%255B1%255D.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" q6="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZPaVpbd4t6oAyhREOibYfcItWx7m3VLes0VlVb1yAZpgUWmOUG6fsLGXTbaMegW2g_SHQMo7xagL-A_JoIWR9BLD_zRsTzayzW7ivlAceHO2lVSzW-5F59q8eRSgWxCo-vpofnnHCpV4x/s320/pentyparc1%255B1%255D.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Penty Park Walled Garden in Walton East, <a href="http://www.qualitycottages.co.uk/areafrommap.php?area=N">Pembrokeshire</a> is currently being restored by local business woman Lesley Lewis, proprietor of <a href="http://www.thegeorges.uk.com/">The Georges</a> Restaurant in Haverfordwest. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">After years of neglect Lesley plans to restore the once productive fruit and vegetable area of Penty Park Estate using a sympathetic approach to its history and ecology with sustainable and organic development.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"> After 4 years hard work the gardener's cottage has been restored using original materials where possible and the garden is beginning to produce food again including honey, strawberries, organic herbs and leaves for the Georges Restaurant. A large green house has been reinstated along with its original wiring system where soft fruit and salad crops will be nutured. Much of the area will retain its natural peace and beauty as parkland nurturing wildlife, birds and ancient shrubs and trees. Lesley hopes in the future to open the garden as part of the National Garden Scheme open gardens for charity.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">It is important to gather as much information as possible to guide and inform the work as it progresses.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">If you have any information, particularly photographs or records of the garden in the past Lesley would be happy to copy and return them. She would vey much appreciate contact from anyone who can add to her knowledge. Lesley is already familiar with the book by Cecilia Jenkin nee Philipps Lloyd, who grew up at Penty Park in the early part of the 20th C but information from local families or workers on the estste with memories of the garden would be very useful. You may even have skills that would assist in this important attempt to preserve Pembrokeshire's heritage.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">If you can help in any way please contact Lesley Lewis or Kay Fuller at The Georges, 24 Market Street, Haverfordwest, Pembrokeshire, Wales SA61 1NH</span><br />
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An innovative Channel 4 programme instigated the construction of a recreated <a href="http://www.english-heritage.org.uk/daysout/properties/wroxeter-roman-city/wroxeter-roman-town-house/">Roman Town House</a> on the site. A team of modern builders built the house using traditional Roman methods supervised by Professor Dai Morgan Evans (a good Welsh name) with a Roman building manual written 2000 years ago by engineer Vitruvius.<br />
The result is this remarkable building now open to the public.</div>Holidays in Wales - Quality Cottageshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10098611088595563057noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7683293967248309091.post-16967478919876600182011-04-07T12:45:00.000+01:002011-04-07T12:45:25.384+01:00Welsh hero Owain Glyndwr<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEipOmqMVEWHgR1f3zZucJg-2jSzojVzbgNJGIgA8DLUCTGr899HnzBrch_Us1zbzij4iaCngNx5x_4kiZupprWUKjKT503EawXYUSu5Pv9Djd0GpHbmOA3soG2KozxSMvu42L5DmFamXF_a/s1600/Owain_Glyndwr_002%255B1%255D.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" r6="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEipOmqMVEWHgR1f3zZucJg-2jSzojVzbgNJGIgA8DLUCTGr899HnzBrch_Us1zbzij4iaCngNx5x_4kiZupprWUKjKT503EawXYUSu5Pv9Djd0GpHbmOA3soG2KozxSMvu42L5DmFamXF_a/s1600/Owain_Glyndwr_002%255B1%255D.jpg" /></a></div>Owain Glyndwr was a Welsh ruler and the last native Welshman to hold the title Prince of Wales. He led a long and unsuccessful uprising aginst Henry IV of England - the last war of independence. Owain was never captured or tempted by Royal pardons. He was last seen in 1412 his last years still a mystery.<br />
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In 2002 Owain Glyndwr was voted 23rd out of 100 Greatest Britons. Glyndwr Day 16th September is celebrated by the flying of Welsh flags.<br />
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The <a href="http://www.canolfanglyndwr.org/">Owain Glyndwr Centre</a> in <a href="http://www.qualitycottages.co.uk/areafrommap.php?area=S">Machynlleth</a> tells of his campaigns and plans for the future of Wales. Visit the site of the National Assembley of Wales held by Owain Glyndwr in midsummer 1404 when he was crowned Prince of Wales.<br />
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</div>Holidays in Wales - Quality Cottageshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10098611088595563057noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7683293967248309091.post-42542864287960175722011-04-07T12:41:00.000+01:002011-04-07T12:41:25.331+01:00An extract from "Over half a century in a Pembrokeshire Paradise" written in 1992 by John Hayward Lavis<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #660000;">My wife and I are English born and first came to live in North </span><a href="http://www.qualitycottages.co.uk/areafrommap.php?area=N"><span style="color: #660000;">Pembrokeshire</span></a><span style="color: #660000;"> in the late 1950's. Having been away for a few years in the eighties, we have now returned to view the changes that have taken place and ponder the future for this region of Wales.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Arial;">I am now writing with an ink pen on paper sitting at my desk in the small first floor study of our cottage home, some three miles inland from that remote, roaring storm beach of Abermawr in west Wales. Life here is a daily delight.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #660000;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">The desk at which I sit is a knee-hole design of dark oak and sits</span> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">directly under the window and on a level with the sill. Whilst I am writing this, if I pause for thought, or more likely for inspiration and raise my head, I look over the village green, which in its turn slopes down and away to a vast and magnificently beautiful wetland marsh, a wild and enchanting waste of reeds and water where hunt marsh harrier and the sparrow hawk. Here also live the heron, the otter and the kingfisher, all in competition, one with the other, for the frogs, eels and wild brown trout which dart over the gravelled shallows of the infant river.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Arial;">The area referred to near the source of the Western Cleddau is now a National Nature Reserve ' Corsydd Llangloffan' . Otters, water shrews, water voles, polecats and badgers all use the reserve. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="color: blue;">An accessible boardwalk runs for a kilometre along a circular route through the reserve, direct from the roadside gate.</span></span><span style="color: blue; font-family: Arial;">Click on <span style="color: #660000;"><a href="http://www.qualitycottages.co.uk/press/press.php#release+">John Hayward Lavis</a></span> to read his full story.</span><br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The reserve lies about five-and-a-half kilometres southwest of Fishguard, just to the north of Castlemorris.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #783f04; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We have in fact closed the circle. This is where we have finished up - where we buried our mothers and raised our children - a return to roots and a way of life that no longer exists in England. We cannot think of anywhere in the world where we would rather be or any way of life which we would rather lead. We are very lucky.</span><br />
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<span style="color: red; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Splash, paddle, wade and jump your way around Erddig in your wellies.</span><br />
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<span style="color: red; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Great day out for all the family. Wellie Whanging, Seed Planting, Pottery making, willow workshop, live Owls to hold and Face Painting. Go on a welly wander and create your own journey stick. Trails and welly hunt too!</span><br />
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<span style="color: red; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Sunday, 10 April 2011 11am - 4pm Gates open: 11am</span><br />
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<span style="color: red; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Adult £11, Child £5.50, Family £27.50, Group £8.40 </span><br />
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<span style="color: red; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Wrexham, <a href="http://www.qualitycottages.co.uk/areafrommap.php?area=R">North Wales</a> LL13 0YT</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Magical <a href="http://willowglobe.co.uk/?page_id=13">Willow Globe Outdoor Theatre</a> & Nature Trail</span><br />
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<span style="color: #274e13; font-family: Georgia;">What a lovely surprise to come across exotic food tucked away in the heart of the pretty little Welsh village of Llechryd on the Teifi River. We went to walk along the delightful riverside path to Cilgerran Castle. The last thing on our minds was Thai food. We stumbled across the hand written sign on our way out of the village homeward bound. Next time I won't be packing the picnic basket, instead we will indulge in a Thai feast along the river. Has anyone tried Linda's Thai take away ?</span><br />
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</div>Holidays in Wales - Quality Cottageshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10098611088595563057noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7683293967248309091.post-57698674201510428572011-04-05T09:59:00.000+01:002011-04-05T09:59:54.918+01:00If you go down to the wood today......<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgfVBDPm-mdNE5tFPWvQyM1HCycVgkbe6uVXibLmCCc8l6pW4JlT_KTfaKn2EQVRVze_QqZF8YCaPsHk5Ev1KPEE7k-O90uGlntp-X0aGFt8hgpX1YcoHrT8eZ1taU9-XjZFndO3Kh7lM7h/s1600/colby_woodland_garden_600x%255B1%255D.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="233" r6="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgfVBDPm-mdNE5tFPWvQyM1HCycVgkbe6uVXibLmCCc8l6pW4JlT_KTfaKn2EQVRVze_QqZF8YCaPsHk5Ev1KPEE7k-O90uGlntp-X0aGFt8hgpX1YcoHrT8eZ1taU9-XjZFndO3Kh7lM7h/s320/colby_woodland_garden_600x%255B1%255D.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Colby Woodland Garden (National Trust)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Join Colby's Head Gardener Steve Whitehead for a relaxed tour of the woodland garden followed by a <a href="http://www.qualitycottages.co.uk/tenby_holiday_cottages.php">Pembrokeshire </a>cream tea in the Bothy Tea-room and a chance to chat, ask questions and pick up hints and tips</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: red;">Dancing comes back to the Music Room at Plas Newyyd (National Trust), </span><a href="http://www.qualitycottages.co.uk/anglesey_cottages.php"><span style="color: red;"><strong>Anglesey</strong></span></a><span style="color: red;">.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: red; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Experience an evening of entertainment by joining in and tripping the light fantastic in the footsteps of the aristocracy followed by a change of mood that will get your toes tapping as you are taken through the dances enjoyed by the below the stairs staff. Don't forget your dancing shoes!</span><br />
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<span style="color: red; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Saturday, 30 April 2011 7pm - 9:30 pm Gates open: 6.30pm</span><br />
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I have holidayed on the island of <a href="http://www.qualitycottages.co.uk/anglesey_cottages.php">Angelsey</a> for over 20 years and all I can say it is one fantastic place.<br />
A lovely place for families to enjoy, great coast views, interesting walks in the countryside. <br />
Last year we had ten weeks at Ligwy I walked up Parys mountain 2 or 3 times and I am turned 77 years. <br />
It is the only place to be, the island beaches are fantastic, water clean and if you talk to the locals there is so much to learn<br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Georgia;">To read more about Welsh gold mined in <a href="http://www.qualitycottages.co.uk/southern_snowdonia.php">Snowdonia</a> click on the link below.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We have a new website that aims to show all of our designs and shapes in an easy to use format.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Although our website is not quite finished we thought you might like to have a look at it now and bookmark it for future views.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We hope we have made it easier to view and buy our pots on line, as well as give you an idea of our ever changing gallery pieces.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We have added a new line at the Pottery. We spotted some beautiful Country style furniture made by a local maker and after meeting the guys at Country Wood crafts we asked if we could sell their furniture at Gwili pottery, which i'm pleased to say they agreed to, so now we have a beautiful range of wooden furniture to display our wonderful pots on.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We will be adding new products daily so please do come back and have a look soon.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Gwili Pottery Pontarsais <a href="http://www.qualitycottages.co.uk/carmarthen-cottages.php">Carmarthen</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Can you help? How many suitable Mothers Day venues in <a href="http://www.qualitycottages.co.uk/">Wales</a> can we come up with before the weekend?</span></div>Holidays in Wales - Quality Cottageshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10098611088595563057noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7683293967248309091.post-51296164761174797722011-03-28T11:55:00.000+01:002011-03-28T11:55:38.386+01:00An evening out with The Kre8ers at the Fox & Hounds in Cwmcych<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhvOoLEGyBrwad-3-_vqw1U-zaHUUnXUbv6_CGWsPT3jJS7U5LNu0kRaES8JihVzrdNNXEdG-c4-LP6M314SsYNbUp2hyUK2BiEXV6hM-NbEE-sWuu0XmO8unu_oA8ypWhlFur0SYTjoyZh/s1600/The+Kre8ers.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="213" r6="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhvOoLEGyBrwad-3-_vqw1U-zaHUUnXUbv6_CGWsPT3jJS7U5LNu0kRaES8JihVzrdNNXEdG-c4-LP6M314SsYNbUp2hyUK2BiEXV6hM-NbEE-sWuu0XmO8unu_oA8ypWhlFur0SYTjoyZh/s320/The+Kre8ers.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br />
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The Fox & Hounds is a great venue, refurbished and extended. Run by a lovely family who have recently taken it over. Bar meals served until 11pm. Friendly and warm with outside covered beer garden.<br />
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<div style="text-align: left;"></div></div>Holidays in Wales - Quality Cottageshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10098611088595563057noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7683293967248309091.post-16995084486269609432011-03-28T08:58:00.000+01:002011-03-28T08:58:43.784+01:00Fancy a long walk? The Pembrokeshire Coast National Trail is the single most popular visitor attraction in the county.<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhLESMQqtL-jFj5j-taE5S8k6NtCrqOjTg3Gk4V-pDt1LqRjJXNQAmJkOT0Nnu42vjQeXbNtmzpS9Pfjf2mzuubs8OpO6uZXfugk70-Myi8A-DRUmn71M5p_Gg3HqL5jL_iq1-ef6y8e0tC/s1600/Pembrokeshire+Coastal+Path.jpg.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="214" r6="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhLESMQqtL-jFj5j-taE5S8k6NtCrqOjTg3Gk4V-pDt1LqRjJXNQAmJkOT0Nnu42vjQeXbNtmzpS9Pfjf2mzuubs8OpO6uZXfugk70-Myi8A-DRUmn71M5p_Gg3HqL5jL_iq1-ef6y8e0tC/s320/Pembrokeshire+Coastal+Path.jpg.jpg" width="320" /></a></div>The 186 mile <a href="http://www.qualitycottages.co.uk/areafrommap.php?area=N">Pembrokeshire</a> Coast National Trail follows the fine coastal landscape of the UK's only Coastal National Park and has recently won a Pembrokeshire Tourism Award for Best Day Out.<br />
See for yourself. Walk as much or as little as you like and take one of the dedicated walkers buses back to your start point. Enjoy magnificent coastal scenery, sandy beaches, hidden coves, marine wild life, wild flowers and sleepy villages. Oh and don't worry if you can't manage the whole 186 miles. Come again. We will always keep a welcome.<br />
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